Life-preserver



P. A. ARMODT.

LIFE PRESERVER. No. 248,266. i Patented Oct. 18,1881,

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER A. ARMODT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LlFE-PRESERVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,266, dated October 18, 1881. Application filed August 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER A. ARMODT, a

' citizen of the United States of America, residof this specification.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the device in use as a life-preserver; Fig. 2, a side elevation, showing the pocket; Fig. 3, a view in perspective, showing the device in use as a bolster as applied to the berths in the staterooms ofsteamers, 850.; and Fig. 4 is plan view,

partly in section, showing the manner of fastgnilng the lower part of the device about the This invention has relation to bolsters for mattresses, which may be at a monients notice converted into a life-preserver, and-so fastened or secured to the body as to prevent its becoming accidentally detached, and the novelty consists in the construction of the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, similar letters of reference marked thereon indicate like parts of the invention.

A is a bag or pouch, made of canvas, or the like, triangular in cross-section, and filled with cork or other analogous material.

B is a similar bag, but it is provided with a water-tight pocket, G, having a flap, c. Said 4o pocket is intended to contain valuables and the like.

To both of the upper corners of the bag A are attached straps a, provided at their free end with a spring snap-hook, c, which catches in the ring b on the upper end of the bag B. These straps a are adjusted to fitover the shoulders, as shown in Fig. 1.

To the lower end of the bag A is secured a cord,a, which passes through a ring, I), placed opposite to it on the other bag, B; thence through another ring, 11 on the same bag. and it is then adjustably secured to a ring, h on the bag A, as shown in Fig. 4.

The operation of the invention is as follows: Upon retiring at night the passenger places such valuables as money, watch, and papers in the pocket- G, and even should no accident happen to the boat the valuables would be far safer in a secure pocket under the bolster than in any ordinary place in the state-room in the event of an attempt at robbery, for it would be almostimpossible to abstract the' coutents of the pocket without awakeningthe occupant of the berth. In the event of an accident to the steamer or ship no time is lost in securing the valuables, as the person has only to secure the bolster and fasten it to his body, as shown in Fig. 1, and be reasonably prepared for the emergency.

Having thus fully desciibed my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A life-pi eserver' consisting of the triangular or wedge-shaped bags A B, provided with the straps a 0., rings 1) b, and cord (1., and having the pocket O, constructed and arranged substan tially as shown.

In testimony whereof l aftix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, PETER A. ARMODT.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. WHITE, THOS. D. MOWLDS. 

